SolidFire Promises Low-Cost SSD Storage for Cloud, Big Data

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In a sign of the growing importance of high-performance storage for Big Data and the cloud, SolidFire, which provides solid-state disk (SSD) and other flash storage services, has announced a new round of series C funding. It has also introduced an expanded product line that it says will allow it to offer SSD storage for less than traditional performance disks, which could cause major ripples across the channel.
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All-flash cloud storage pays big dividends, according to SolidFire. The company announced results from a third-party benchmarking process that reported twice as many operations per second for NoSQL MongoDB deployments on SolidFire's SSD storage as compared to other hosts.